Tag: Organic Agriculture - Page 9
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Meet The Faces of the Food Movement
In the lead-up to the conference Food and Society 2009: Gathering for Good Food the organizers have released an online slide show highlighting 75 portraits of people in the food movement who attended last year's event. Electronic communications have
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Organic Compost Delivered To USDA Headquarters
The USDA ain't what it used to be. Ever since Earl Butz was charged with creating a highly efficient ag sector under Nixon and Ford the USDA has been about production of cheap calories through industrial agriculture. Enter the
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Dear Obamas: Congrats on the Organic Garden
Dear Barack, Michelle, and Kids,
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Obamas Turn White House Organic
Since Obama took office and the family moved into the White House things have changed in the food and agriculture landscape in the U.S. of A. Let's review.A collective, "Oh No!"
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It's Time To Get GMO Soy Lecithin Out Of Certified Organic Food
Time sensitive call to action. Deadline is Monday, November 3.
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Arran Stephens of Nature's Path on Independence in the Fast-Consolidating Food Industry
Arran Stephens is the CEO and co-founder, with his wife Ratana, of Nature's Path. The company is one of the leading privately owned and family operated organic food companies in North America. They sell their certified organic cereals, breads, cookies,
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Hess Natur Organic Fashion Coming to America
It sounds like a common enough story. Freshly minted parent can't find chemical-free clothing for their new-to-the-world child. What makes this version different from so many of the introductions found on new green apparel websites, is that it
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Esprit Ecollection Clothing: Ahead of Their Time?
The other day in profiling the company Terrapax, we suggested that Nau was not, strictly speaking, 'ahead of its time', but rather they were treading a path laid down by eco-pioneers, well over a decade ago. Today we take a peek at Esprit's
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Terrapax Bags: Ahead of Their Time?
With the demise of Nau, many commentators have been suggesting the trouble was that the company was ahead of its time. We respectfully disagree. Firstly, if ever there was a time for businesses to flourish, who are environmentally and socially
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Patagonia Add Five Products to Footprint Chronicles
Patagonia have updated their Webby Award nominated Footprint Chronicles website with five new product lifecycle assessments (LCAs). The additions are their Nine Trails shorts, Sugar and Spice shoe, Capilene 3 bottoms Vitaliti strappy dress and
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Kylie Kwong Cooks Carbon Clean
Kylie Kwong is a well known Australian celebrity chef. What is probably less well known is her passion for the environment. A commitment well demonstrated via her Sydney chinese restaurant, Billy Kwong.
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Seven Wonders for a Cool Planet [Go the Bicycle!]
Now it seems like later
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World's Biggest Green Drinks - Melbourne, Australia
Melbourne is arguable the sporting capital of Australia. Plant competitive species of grass in two halves of a stadium, and in a day the the city would’ve sold out of tickets to watch which would grow the fastest. So it should come as no surprise that
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My Organics Are Bigger than Yours
Many biodynamic moons ago we reported that Australia had the world’s largest area of organically farmed land. That remains the case three years on. But so does the caveat that it is mostly due to that
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TH Forums Highlights: Electric Car Mechanics, Buying the Farm + More
1) Forums user ed has reason to believe that electric cars put mechanics out of business: "Only about 15% of the energy from the fuel you put in your tank gets used to move your car down the road or run useful accessories, such as air conditioning. The
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A 30th Birthday Party, The Permaculture Convergence
Permaculture is a practice we’re rather partial to here at TreeHugger. It is a concept that defies simple definition, but has to do with designing human spaces, and particularly food production, so as to optimise lessons learnt from nature. Originally
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Plant that Pistol
What a brilliant concept: Make a garden not war. Artist-activists Christopher Humes and Noah Scalin developed the Seed Gun, a 9mm 910 pistol that can be planted. The pistol, part of the Plant the Piece series, is actually a mixture of red clay powder,
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Whole Foods Bans the Bag
Joining San Francisco, China, Australia, IKEA and more in an effort to cut back on plastic bags, Whole Foods announced yesterday that they won't be giving out plastic bags in their stores anymore. After testing it out
